Kingston V300 120GB $59.99 FS @ Newegg

[VirtualLarry]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...07&ignorebbr=1

Love or hate em, they're cheap!

 

[bbhaag]

I bought one of the 240gb drives awhile ago but never got around to testing it until the other night. I was a little leery about the negative things people were saying about them. I figured it was their setup that was wrong. NOPE.

It benched right around 180mb/s on the seq read. I have a 240gb Crucial that I decided to bench at the same time. The Crucial benched right around 500mb/s on the seq read. Even my 60gb Plextor benched around 480 and its been my OS drive for over three years.

Stay away from these if you're building a new system. I plan on putting mine in an old SATA 1.5 lappy running Linux and for that it will do just fine.
These drives are a joke.

EDIT:I should a few more details about the tests I ran. I used AS SSD for testing all three drives. Also I'm using and older AMD platform running an 800 series chipset.

 

[marvdmartian]

Sad, because the Kingston drives used to be pretty good. I've got an older 120GB drive as my main (OS) drive, in my desktop, and it runs like a champ.

Heard they started using controllers built by a cheaper vendor, and it's screwed them. Hell, they'll be giving these things away, before much longer!

 

[Fanatical Meat]

^^Good I'm thinking about adding one to a SATA 2 system. I figure these should be plenty fast for it.

 

[Leyawiin]

I bought one of the 240gb drives awhile ago but never got around to testing it until the other night. I was a little leery about the negative things people were saying about them. I figured it was their setup that was wrong. NOPE.

It benched right around 180mb/s on the seq read. I have a 240gb Crucial that I decided to bench at the same time. The Crucial benched right around 500mb/s on the seq read. Even my 60gb Plextor benched around 480 and its been my OS drive for over three years.

Stay away from these if you're building a new system. I plan on putting mine in an old SATA 1.5 lappy running Linux and for that it will do just fine.
These drives are a joke.

Thanks for posting this. I was about ready to bite for additional storage, but that's just too slow. I have an old SATA II OCZ Vertex Plus and its rated at 250/160... and actually gets it. I just don't think I want to go slower than that especially with something SATA III.

 

[Roland00Address]

It benched right around 180mb/s on the seq read. I have a 240gb Crucial that I decided to bench at the same time. The Crucial benched right around 500mb/s on the seq read. Even my 60gb Plextor benched around 480 and its been my OS drive for over three years.

Wow that is slower than the intel G2, that means you are getting pre 2009 ssd speeds.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Wow that is slower than the intel G2, that means you are getting pre 2009 ssd speeds.

I would purchase 32nm Intel X25-M G2 drives for this price/gig all day long if I could. They have excellent random I/O performance, and great battery life, and they last nearly forever, it seems. Yeah, they're SATAII, and not SATA6G. Big deal. Not that much relies on STR, I don't think. (Could be wrong. But I thought that's why a RAID-0 of SSDs doesn't improve much, in terms of real-world performance.)